# Resident Solutions Architect

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Seattle, WA, Los Angeles, CA, Denver, CO
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $181k – $248k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Databricks, Spark, Python, Scala, AWS, Azure, GCP, MLOps, CI/CD, Data Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-03-12

> Resident Solutions Architect delivers billable professional services on Databricks platform, designing big data architectures, implementing data engineering/AI projects, and providing customer support. Requires 6+ years in data engineering, Spark expertise, cloud proficiency (AWS/Azure/GCP), and Python/Scala coding.

## Job Description

## Impact/Responsibilities
- Work on impactful customer technical projects: designing reference architectures, creating how-to's, productionalizing use cases.
- Scope professional services work with engagement managers and customer input.
- Guide strategic customers on big data projects, 3rd party migrations, end-to-end design, build, and deployment of big data and AI applications.
- Consult on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement customer projects for successful Databricks adoption.
- Provide escalated support for customer operational issues.
- Collaborate with Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect, and Customer to deliver engagement technical components.
- Work with Engineering and Customer Support for product feedback and issue resolution.

## What We Look For
- 6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics.
- Comfortable writing code in **Python** or **Scala**.
- Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (**AWS**, **Azure**, **GCP**) with expertise in at least one.
- Deep experience with distributed computing with **Apache Spark** and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
- Familiarity with **CI/CD** for production deployments.
- Working knowledge of **MLOps**.
- Design and deployment of performant end-to-end data architectures.
- Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope and timelines.
- Documentation and white-boarding skills.
- Experience working with clients and managing conflicts.
- Build skills in technical areas for Databricks-based solutions.
- Travel to customers 20% of the time.
- **Databricks Certification**.

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